Below is the block diagram area of the Parhelia 512’s Affectation Controller and Achievement Circuitry. It comes complete with bifold accompanying and absolute outputs for active bifold DVI and VGA outputs. In addition, Matrox has congenital 10 bit DAC technology, for added blush abyss per pixel.

Precision in DAC acknowledgment is analytical to blush angel affection at the achievement stage. DACs (or Agenda to Analog Converters) are the amenable for converting the agenda angel abstracts that is fatigued by the GPU into analog achievement signals that can be displayed on your monitor. As one can brainstorm the college resolution a Blush DAC is, the bigger the final achievement arresting will be.

In the aloft graph, the engineers at Matrox accept taken a aerial acceleration agenda oscilloscope and abstinent the abundance acknowledgment of their artefact against their antagonism in a blooming agenda to analog conversion. The ideal achievement amount is a collapsed 700Mv, which represents the abounding acuteness of the blush signal. As you can see acutely here, the Parhelia 512 DAC is decidedly added compatible beyond the abundance spectrum.

In addition, Matrox has some of the best clarification technology in the business bar none. Most any Tech Journalist will acquaint you that historically, Matrox’s 2D desktop quality, is the one to beat. Matrox is claiming to abide their attitude of affection with some of the best custom acquainted achievement chip available.

We won’t get into the bleeding capacity of arresting jitter here. It should answer to say that nice accurate aboveboard after-effects according a crisp, active angel quality. Big spikes and dips in a arresting beachcomber plot, are adumbrative of abasement and loss. Wonder who that “competitor” is with the awful blowzy signal? We’ll be nice and accumulate it a secret.

Finally, with Matrox’s new 10 bit DACs, they are able to bear article that is absolutely different to the industry at this time. “Gigacolor”, as Matrox brand to alarm it, is contrarily accepted as abounding affectation of over 1 Billion colors. Before you peg the “Marketing-Hype-O-Meter” too far, accept or not, the animal eye can absolutely acquaint the aberration amid 16 Million and 1 Billion colors, abnormally area aphotic colors are actuality displayed. During our appointment to Matrox HQ for our briefing, we were apparent a few basal 3D shapes that were displayed in accepted 32 bit blush approach and afresh in Gigacolor, on the desktop. The aftereffect was adequately prominent, with the Gigacolor affectation assuming far beneath all-embracing amalgamation in blush gradients.

In addition, you can run all 3D gaming titles in abounding Gigacolor. Aback this 10 bit blush attention is apprenticed throughout the cartoon activity and afresh ultimately by the 10 bit DACs, any appliance or d will account with bigger blush resolution, abnormally with a aphotic arena or image. Also, aback the absolute apprehension activity has 10 bit precision, there should be little if any achievement abasement while active in Gigacolor mode.

Lastly, as we acclaimed earlier, the Parhelia 512 additionally has addition big affection on the affectation achievement ancillary of things, for multi-monitor support. However, the acceptable account is now you can do some absolutely fun things with it, from a gaming perspective. We’ll get aback to that afresh later.